GOULDSBORO Selectmen will hold a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 13, to get voters’ OK to transfer up to $100,000 from unappropriated surplus to the Selectmen will hold a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 13, to get voters’ OK to transfer up to $100,000 from unappropriated surplus to the town’s legal reserve account. The $20,000 budgeted for legal services this fiscal year has nearly been spent due in part due to American Aquafarms’ plan to make the Maine Fair Trade facility its base for a Frenchman Bay salmon farm.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy has formally requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conduct an environmental review and issue a statement under the U.S. Environmental Policy Act before any final decisions are made on American Aquafarms’ plan to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually at two sites in Frenchman Bay.
Army Corps review of salmon farm requested
HANCOCK Frenchman Bay Conservancy has formally requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conduct an environmental review and issue a statement under the U.S. Environmental Policy Act before any final decisions are made on American Aquafarms’ plan to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually at two sites in Frenchman Bay.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy has preserves totaling 8,000 acres in a dozen Maine towns and townships, including seven Hancock County communities.
The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is currently reviewing for completeness American Aquafarms’ March 3 lease applications to grow salmon at two 15-pen sites northwest of Long Porcupine Island and northeast of Bald Rock Ledge in Frenchman Bay. The Norwegian-backed company is expected to file by month’s end its wastewater discharge permit application to discharge a total of 4 billion gallons daily with the Maine Department of Environmental Protecti